Mark,

How about moving the modality condition to the start of the problem? make the form modal or not when it first instantiates based on the condition.

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>>How about making the form Modal?
>
>Nope. Can't do that. Re-read my entire problem. Actually I have found a clever solution. When the condition exists where I have to simulate a modal form, I change the form's AlwaysOnTop property to true. The problem was the Deactivate was firing twice -- once when the user clicks on another form and once because of the messagebox. In the Deactivate, I put:

>if This.lAddMode
>	if empty(This.Tag)
>		This.Tag = "NOMSG"
>		MessageBox('You must first complete or cancel the addition of the new record.', MB_ICONEXCLAMATION, "Warning...")
>		This.Show()
>	else
>		This.Show()
>		This.Tag = ""
>	endif
>else
>	DoDefault()
>endif

>This is kind of a kludge, so I am open for more elegant options.